All Is Beautiful:  The Navajo Creation Story

Episode 2 - All Is Beautiful: The Navajo Creation Story

All Is Beautiful: The Navajo Creation Story

Show Notes

-In this episode: In the second chapter, the air spirit people wear out their welcome in the first world (by having sex with the wives of the people there), and are driven away into the sky by the approach of a great flood of waters.

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Feb 24, 2007

-In this episode: The people discover that Coyote has hidden Big Water Creature's children in his robe. This was what caused the flood. After the babies are returned, one of the boy/girl twins dies. The people see the afterlife, through the hole to the fourth world

Feb 15, 2007

-In this episode: The people leave the island. When they are on the far shore, Coyote teaches them that it is probably better if they don't live forever, and that someday each one dies. Poetry written and voiced by Jabez L. Van Cleef.

Feb 14, 2007

-In this episode: Badger helps dig a burrow through the sky, so that the people can crawl through to the fifth world. They emerge on an island in the middle of a lake. Poetry written and voiced by Jabez L. Van Cleef.

Feb 13, 2007

-In this episode: An Old Man, a Young Man, and a Locust spread seven bags of sacred soil on the hilltop. Then they plant a cluster of reeds, which grow together. The people climb inside the reeds, and are lifted away from the rising waters. Badger helps dig a burrow

Feb 12, 2007

-In this episode: The peaceful world becomes suddenly chaotic, as all the animals flee in terror, and the people hear of great floods approaching them from all directions. The people gather at the top of a hill to escape the water. They plant different kinds of trees,

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